One Song

One Song

Histoire(s) du Théâtre IV conceived and directed by Miet Warlop NTGent & Irene Wool vzw

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06 and 07/04/23
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Montjuïc. Sala Fabià Puigserver

Show completed

Timetable

19:00

Running time

1 h

Place

Sala Fabià Puigserver

Language

Song in English (text at the hand programme)

Price

€10 - €29

Accessibility

Hearing assistance via mobile phone

Attention

The music of the show sounds very loud, especially from row 1 to 6.
Buffer plugs shall be provided at the entrance to the room.

Miet Warlop (Mystery Magnet, After All Springville) returns with a musical competition. It is a collectivising ritual for leaving the past behind with hope.

A new project by this Belgian artist, who we have already seen in After All Springville and Mystery Magnet (winner of the Theatertreffen Stückemarkt awards at the Berliner Festspiele 2012). Twelve performers take part in a musical competition accompanied by a presenter and a cheerleader. They will form a community around a single song, and lift each other up until they are exhausted in order get ahead. A ritual of farewell, death, hope and resurrection, in which the personal becomes collective and one song can give meaning to an entire society, united in the diversity of humans of all ages.

One Song is the result of the question "what's your story as a theatre maker?" which the NTGent creative centre asked the artist. A co-production with the Teatre Lliure that makes up Chapter IV of their Historie(s) du théâtre and premières at the Avignon Festival in 2022.

Miet Warlop is one of today's leading avant-garde performing artists. Her shows, containing brushstrokes of silent humour, are at the intersection between the visual arts, performance and the theatre. She is also currently working on a new production, Delirium, in collaboration with the Kunstenfestivaldesarts and the Kaaitheater, which will première in the spring of 2024.


WHAT THE PRESS SAID

"A powerful but salutary knockout. Seventeen years after the performance Sportband, Warlop’s requiem for her brother Jasper, One Song tells us that grief always stays with us, but also that grief – by carrying it together – is transformed, from the intimate to the universal, and allows us to go to the limits of what seems humanly possible."
Jean-Marie Wynants - Le Soir

"One of the 10 best european theater 2022."
Matt Wolf - The New York Times

"Warlop’s real intent is to lead us through the patent humour and futility of this set-up towards deeper concerns about the purpose of human action, collaboration and – etched through the song’s incantation – the brutal and universal cycle of grief."
Andrew Todd - The Guardian

"A miracle that awakened the festival with a comforting and deeply moving trance, thanks to the power of the collective."
Vincent Bouquet - Theatral Magazine

"A rocking primal scream bursting with zest for life, energy and humour."
Filip Tielens - De Standaard

“Warlop is a fascinating artist who is finally getting more recognition.”
Fabienne Darge - Le Monde

WHAT THE PRESS SAID

"One of the 10 best european theater 2022."
Matt Wolf - The New York Times

"The most exalted show of the opening days is directed by the uncategorisable Belgian artist Miet Warlop. One Song means what it says in the title – a single, boppy composition by Maarten van Cauwenberghe repeated for an hour by a ragtag group of musician-athlete-apostles. There’s a frantic drummer, a gymnast-violinist on a balance beam, a double-bassist doing punishing sit-ups to reach his instrument, a jumping keyboard player and a singer on a treadmill, all wearing sports kit with socks sourced from Gammarelli, the papal tailor in Rome. They are imprisoned in a time warp gym with a crowd of fans on an upstage bleacher cheering them on raucously as they repeat the music faster, even faster and then lurchingly slower, following an on-stage metronome and the incomprehensible injunctions of a hysterical, hilarious, megaphone-wielding announcer. Just when you feel they’re getting the hang of things, water starts dripping on them, making them slip and slide quite dangerously. […] So far, so Sisyphean: but Warlop’s real intent is to lead us through the patent humour and futility of this set-up towards deeper concerns about the purpose of human action, collaboration and – etched through the song’s incantation – the brutal and universal cycle of grief. [...] Completing the frenetic tableau, a whirling performer chants text and assembles clay tiles of words in meandering phrases around the stage, ending by dancing with the word “if”. “In everyday life, ‘if’ is an evasion, in the theatre ‘if’ is the truth,” wrote Peter Brook in The Empty Space. Brook is in the minds and hearts of everyone here, joyously sharing reminiscences of this awesome director, who is – surprisingly – officially commemorated only by a festival blogpost."
Andrew Todd - The Guardian

"A miracle that awakened the festival with a comforting and deeply moving trance, thanks to the power of the collective."
Vincent Bouquet - Theatral Magazine

"A rocking primal scream bursting with zest for life, energy and humour."
Filip Tielens - De Standaard

“Warlop is a fascinating artist who is finally getting more recognition.”
Fabienne Darge - Le Monde

"A powerful but salutary knockout. Seventeen years after the performance Sportband, Warlop’s requiem for her brother Jasper, One Song tells us that grief always stays with us, but also that grief – by carrying it together – is transformed, from the intimate to the universal, and allows us to go to the limits of what seems humanly possible."
Jean-Marie Wynants - Le Soir

PERFORMERS

Simon Beeckaert

Elisabeth Klinck

Willem Lenaerts

Milan Schudel

Melvin Slabbinck

Joppe Tanghe

Karin Tanghe

Wietse Tanghe

WITH

Stanislas Bruynseels

Rint Dens

Judith Engelen

Marius Lefever

Luka Mariën

Flora Van Canneyt

Jarne Van Loon

TEXT

Miet Warlop advised by Jeroen Olyslaegers

DRAMATURGY

Giacomo Bisordi

SETTING

Miet Warlop

COSTUMES

Carol Piron – Filles à Papa

LIGHTING

Dennis Diels

SOUND

Maarten Van Cauwenberghe

SOUN DESIGNS

Bart Van Hoydonck and Raf Willems

DRAMATURGY ASSISTANT

Kaatje De Geest

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT

Greet Prové

TECHNICAL PRODUCTION & STAGE MANAGER

Oliver Houttekiet

PRODUCTION & TOUR ASSISTANT

Elli De Meyer

TECHNIQUE

Flup Beys, Dietrich Lerooij, Gilles Roosen, Bart Van Hoydonck, Raf Willems, Laurent Ysebaert and Pieter Kinoli

REALISATION OF SET, PROPS & COSTUMES

Ateliers NTGent

SPECIAL THANKS TO

Kris Auman, Imran Alam, Barbara Vackier, Jasper Hautekiet, de familie Warlop, Rossana Miele, Lotte Van Craeynest, Christel Simons, Patrick Vanderhaegen and Diana Campbell

PRODUCTION

NTGent, Miet Warlop / Irene Wool vzw

IN COPRODUCTION WITH

Festival d’Avignon, DE SINGEL (Anvers), Tandem Scène nationale (Arras-Douai), Théâtre Dijon Bourgogne Centre dramatique national, HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin) and La Comédie de Valence - Centre dramatique national Drôme – Ardèche and Teatre Lliure

SUPPORTED BY

De Vlaamse Overheid, de stad Gent, Tax Shelter van de Belgische Federale Overheid and Frans Brood Productions

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